G2 Vendor Directory

YugabyteDB vs. IBM Db2

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricYugabyteDB

by Yugabyte, Inc.

IBM Db2

by IBM

Overall rating4.54.1
Review count65684
Ease of use9.28.3
Ease of setup8.78.0
Quality of support9.68.3
Meets requirements9.38.7
NPS70.96774236
Small Business41.3%13.2%
Mid-Market46.0%20.8%
Enterprise12.7%66.0%
Total page views595632
Total LLM citations3,7463,844

YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is AI-ready, turbocharged PostgreSQL for business-critical transactional applications. 100% open source, it offers built-in resilience, on-demand scaling, and more! YugabyteDB eliminates the tradeoffs you get with legacy databases by uniquely combining enterprise-grade RDBMS capabilities with the horizontal scalability and resilience of cloud native architectures. YugabyteDB delivers a single logical database that can span across any cloud (private, public or hybrid).

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • High Availability
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • Ease of Use

IBM Db2

Built to run the world’s mission-critical workloads. Designed by the world’s leading database experts, IBM Db2 empowers developers, enterprise architects, and data engineers to run low-latency transactions and real-time analytics equipped for the most demanding workloads. From microservices to AI workloads, Db2 is the tested, resilient, and hybrid database providing the extreme availability, built-in refined security, effortless scalability, and intelligent automation for systems that run the world.

Pros

  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
  • Security
  • Customer Support